Couples Therapy

“ Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance.”

Couples counselling is a collaborative process and a form of therapy that looks to improve communication and resolve issues within an intimate relationship. In contrast to counselling for relationship issues, which can be undertaken solely through individual sessions, couples counselling can only be done with both partners present during the therapy sessions.

In some instances, couples experience challenges such as infidelity and substance abuse, which can cause or exacerbate existing communication problems and frequent conflict. Sometimes talking to an independent third party, someone with no connection to yourself or your partner, may provide a needed perspective which either or both of you, may lack. 

In couples counselling, I work with couples during the sessions, but also require couples to complete tasks when at home. During the sessions, some of the time is attributed to talking about your tasks and to discuss any challenges you faced and how the experience was for you.

Therapeutic goals of couples counselling include understanding how external factors such as family values, religion, lifestyle and culture affect your relationship, reflection on past incidents and their present impact, learning to communicate in a more constructive way and, negotiating and resolving conflicts in a healthy way.